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Q: I understand that users can provide printer specific settings in ~user/.apsfilter/apsfilterrc.apsN ; isn't it dangerous?
A: Yes it is. That's why it is disabled by default.
That file is a shell script which gets sourced if the administrator allows this kind of configuration. This is done while running the filter, i.e. under the same user and group IDs, which are frequently privileged users/groups such as root, daemon, lp or bin.
A: Of course:
check your console (if available: your xconsole) for any error reports
search /var/log/messages etc. for lpd errors
enable verbose mode of client programs like lpr, lpq etc.
enable debugging mode of apsfilter
You might want to save paper while debugging; move to the end of the script and uncomment the three lines in the DEBUG sections.
After the next (failed) printing attempt there's lots of output in the log file (a.k.a. status file) which is located in the printer specific spool dir (see the ``:lf=...:'' line in /etc/printcap).
For questions about Apsfilter, e-mail
<apsfilter-help@apsfilter.org>.
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